The Artist's Way
Joanne Louis-Paul • October 29, 2021
We’re at the halfway point of the cycle, can you believe it? I can’t. I thought now would be a good place for me to share my own progress this cycle working through The Artist’s Way.
For those who don’t know what The Artist’s Way is, it’s a 12-week self- or group-led program aimed at reclaiming the artist that lives in all of us. Author Julia Cameron is a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, and The Artist’s Way is perhaps her most influential work.
WIT brother, Scott Halkyard, had told me about it last cycle and had recommended I make that my WIT program this time around and I’m grateful that I took his advice. The two components I’ve committed to the group are the Morning Pages (journaling three pages in the morning) and the Artist Date (a weekly commitment to do something alone that fosters my creativity) and it’s been amazing!
The journaling piece has been huge for me, as my focus in these next few months is to slow down internally and align with the seasons. Journaling has been helping me to shed a lot of jumbled thoughts and clear my mind to make more discerning decisions as I think about hibernating in the Winter and seeing what sprouts in the Spring.
I encourage you all to read the book for yourselves, whether you’re a traditional artist or not, because the point Cameron drives home is: we are all artists and we were all made for creativity.
Happy shedding, friends!
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